19.7 million children inoculated against polio throughout the country


Islamabad:

At least 19.7 million children under five years have been vaccinated during an anti-political campaign of September 1 to 7 in several districts, the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) cited.

More than 4 million children were covered with Punjab, 8.7 million in Sindh, 2.2 million in Baluchistan and 4 million in KP.

In Islamabad, almost 479,000 children received polio falls, while 112,000 were vaccinated in Gilgit-Baltistan and 164,000 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Previously, environmental surveillance had detected wild poliovirus in Hyderabad wastewater samples.

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